Cabaret Convention Comes to Palm Springs

The Mabel Mercer Foundation will produce the First-ever Palm Springs Cabaret Convention, featuring 50 cabaret artists, on Friday through Sunday, March 7th, 8th & 9th at the ANNENBERG THEATER (101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs, CA - 760-325-4490 - http://www.psmuseum.org/). Tickets are $40.00 each.

For each of the three nights, 12 to 14 gifted performers will be singing the great American Songbook. Music by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Rodgers and Hart and newer songwriters of today, Amanda McBroom, Maury Yeston, Ann Hampton Callaway, and John Bucchino.

The performances in Palm Springs will be dedicated to the spirit of Mabel Mercer and the singular art form she epitomized.

(The artists listed below are scheduled to appear subject to their availability.)

Friday, March 7th: Christine Andreas, Kaye Ballard, Kirsten Benton & Stan Chandler, Barbara Carroll, Mara Getz, Andrea Marcovicci, Sharon McNight, Georga Osborne, Craig Rubano, David Staller, Billy Stritch, Contance Towers, Lumiri Tubo and Perry Wood.

Saturday, March 8th: Cindy Benson, Mary Foster Conklin, BJ Crosby, Lori Donato, Anne Kerry Ford, Natalie Gamsu, Jason Graae, Karen Mason, Avery Sommers, Wesla Whitfield, and Julie Wilson.

Sunday, March 9th: Eric Comstock, Dale Gonyea, Jeff Harnar, Ray Jessel, Amanda McBroom, Liliane Montevecchi, Todd Murray, Sidney Myer, Mark Nadler, Christian Nova, KT Sullivan, and Joanne Tatham.

The Mabel Mercer Foundation founded in 1985, is a not-for-profit arts organization which perpetuates the memory of the legendary artist Mabel Mercer by stimulating and promoting public interest in American song and the art of cabaret. The Foundation works on a daily basis to develop and solidify a community of cabaret artists, producers and audience members. The Foundation also sponsors performances and broadcasts by both new and established cabaret artists, including the annual Cabaret Conventions at Town Hall hosting more than 1000 performers from around the world.

Donald Smith has been involved in the world of cabaret for more than thirty years. For over twenty of those years he worked with his great friend, the supreme cabaret artist Mabel Mercer, for whom he arranged cabaret seasons in this country as well as organizing her dramatic return to her native England after a 41-year absence. Mr. Smith has managed, promoted, and nurtured the careers of numerous other cabaret artists, including Steve Ross, Michael Feinstein, and Andrea Marcovicci, and he has represented, in one capacity or another, Julie Wilson, Sylvia Syms, Margaret Whiting, KT Sullivan, Jeff Harnar, and David Staller. He has produced cabaret in London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington DC.

In 1985 Mr. Smith brought into being the not-for-profit Mabel Mercer Foundation to perpetuate the memory of Mabel Mercer and to give an ongoing visibility to the fragile and endangered world of cabaret. In 1989 the Mabel Mercer Foundation presented the first-ever Cabaret Convention at New York's Town Hall, and in October, 2003 Mr. Smith will be producing the 14th Annual New York Cabaret Convention.

For additional information, see http://www.mabelmercer.org/.

 

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